Waldemar Stanisław Sommertag
Waldemar Stanisław Sommertag is a Polish clergyman, Roman Catholic Archbishop and diplomat of the Holy See.Biography
Sommertag was born on 6 February 1968 in Więcbork. On 30 May 1993, he was ordained a priest of the Diocese of Pelplin.
He earned a degree in canon law and entered the diplomatic service of the Holy See on 19 June 2000. He worked in the Nunciatures in Tanzania, Nicaragua, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Israel, Palestine and Cyprus, as well as in Rome in the Section for Relations with States of the Secretariat of State.
On 15 February 2018, Pope Francis appointed him Titular Archbishop of Traiectum ad Mosam and Apostolic Nuncio to Nicaragua. He received his episcopal consecration from Pope Francis on 19 March. On 18 February 2019, Sommertag announced that Pope Francis had ended the suspension from priestly duties imposed on Ernesto Cardenal in 1984 for refusing to leave political office as ordered by Pope John Paul II.
